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I think you are better off finding an old HP LaserJet or using a more up-market Apple LaserWriter that has (ideally) a parallel port or a standard serial port and supports PCL. Back in the day, it was possible to print to a PostScript printer from the DOS versions of WordPerfect and MS Word...

If I recall correctly, the IIvx was crippled in that while the CPU ran at around 32MHz, the bus speed was only 16MHz. This may have been done to preserve NuBus compatibility with older machines, but made it a real "buyer beware" machine, because the CPU clock speed did not reflect the actual...

Anti-glare screen. Had one on my SE in the day. Usually stuck on with strips of velcro either side of the display.

In my experience, the Portable needs a good battery present for reliable operation, as you have found. Without the battery, it's a bit "hit and miss". You can get away with a 6v "gell cell" battery and jumper wires in a pinch, although the wires need to be fairly heavy duty. Re-celling the...

Apple were very thorough with their upgrades. I never did a 128k -> 512k upgrade, however I performed many 512k -> Plus upgrades. The upgrades always included all stickers and everything to make the upgraded machine almost indistinguishable from the "real thing". In the case of the...

By the time you take the drive out of the Mac (unscrew from carrier etc), dismantle external case... put drive in case, assemble case... do the file copy... reverse all of the above... no. Usually quicker to do in the Mac. Particularly with LCs (volume selling machines in the day), you could...

I'm a bit off topic, but it's possible to "do" SCSI disk mode on just about any 68k Mac. Take the hard drive out and change the SCSI ID to something other than ID 0 (some drives can do this in software). Connect the two Macs with a 25 pin to 25 pin SCSI cable. Turn on the "disk mode" Mac and...

I'm pretty sure the SE/30 came with the original ADB Keyboard included, as LCGuy said. Many users chose to buy the "extended" keyboard so they had a separate numeric keypad etc. I recall the local University putting a heap of unused standard keyboards out to tender because their users had...

The upgrade kits were ordered by dealers as an exchange item. If the dealer failed to return all the old parts promptly, the exchange would be converted to a "buy outright", costing the dealer many times the original price. There would have been the occasional disorganised Apple Authorised...

You raise a good point and I don't know why it was unsuitable for the 1.4MB drives. I always assumed that it was damage to the head gimbal due to the heads catching on the transport sheet as it was inserted or removed, but this was only an educated guess.

The 128k/512k to Mac Plus upgrade was quite popular at the time. Sadly, it turned the computer into a Mac Plus, so the upgrade has (to my mind) completely negated any value of the computer as a collectable. It's not even a good, clean, original Mac Plus. In fact, the only original bits are...

No, sorry. It took the form of a large ring binder book. Every month an "update" would arrive with instructions to remove this page, insert that page from the update and so on. As such, it was always up to date, but you only ever got the one copy of it. I think I have some old parts price...

The damage I referred to only occurred if the yellow transport sheet was used in a drive that it was never designed for: the 1.4MB drive. I've never heard of it damaging the 800k drives it was designed to go in to.

Is the drive being used as an external drive? Can you hear it spin up? Are you sure it's not a SCSI ID problem? By definition, the controller itself must have an ID (usually 7, but sometimes 15 on SCSI-2 controllers). If you don't have an external terminator, jumper for terminator = on...

Interesting thread... Correct. Apple service providers were instructed to always ignore the part numbers screen printed on the board. There was a book used to identify parts - usually from photos, with notes guiding you as to subtle differences between boards (i.e. if the IC at position X...

The Australian Mac Pluses - at least the later ones came with the yellow transport sheets (affectionately known at the time as "the piece of cheese"). I only recall them shipping with 800k drives. I can't find it now, but I'm almost certain there was a technical advisory after the 1.4MB drives...

Agreed, Bunsen. I remember lusting after the 170s when they were new - the active matrix display was so crisp and easy to read compared to just about everything else on the market at the time (not just from Apple). One day I hope to find a 170 or 180 in good nick for my collection. I loved the...

I guess there are several reasons for this. The obvious one is that the PowerBook 100 was very cheap, leading to it being the volume selling PowerBook at the time. There are now quite a lot of old ones floating around. Another factor is that the construction was cheap - their manufacture was...

If the hard drive is not starting in your PowerBook 100, it may be because the main battery has gone bad. Like the Mac Portable it is based on, the PowerBook 100 relies on a bit of an extra "kick" from the lead acid battery to get the hard drive up and running - even when it's plugged in to a...

Yes, we sold a few of them in the day. As LCGuy said, they were a rebadged Canon, with very few changes made - for instance, the parallel port was still present and worked, you just had to pull a black rubber cover off the socket! I have a feeling that it even said it was a BJC-800 somewhere...